Nvidia wants to help you afford an impressive gaming PC this holiday season. The company debuted the GeForce GTX1070 Ti on Thursday, a graphics card with high-end specs at a more affordable price than the company’s top-of-the-line 1080 cards. Calling it an “overclocked monster,” Nvidia says the 1070 Ti features 2,432 cores and 8GB of …
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Watch out, Netflix and Hulu: There’s a new streaming service in town. And it could have everything movie and TV fans want. Launching Thursday, Movies Anywhere is a new all-in-one service that will bring some of the world’s biggest movie studios and digital streaming platforms together into the one platform, meaning US viewers can watch content bought from multiple services …
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“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” comes out on December 15 in most locations in the US, but tickets are available for purchase starting today, October 9. If you’re movie theater is anything like mine, Star Wars tickets sell out quickly, so here’s how to get yours ASAP. When will tickets go on sale today? The official trailer debuts during Monday …
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You’ve watched the series. You’ve played the game. Now welcome the cast and creatures of the Netflix throwback horror hit “Stranger Things” to your Google phone. Google announced the introduction of themed augmented-reality stickers during its Pixel 2 smartphone announcement Wednesday, and both Eleven and the beastly demogorgon took part in a demonstration of the new tech. Google product director Aparna …
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Now playing: Watch this: Cue the robot has plenty of attitude 1:33 Fancy a friendly game of soccer with your robot pal? San Mateo, California-based Wonder Workshop’s new Cue robot will be your own personal David Beckham. The kid-oriented Cue does bear a resemblance to Sphero’s BB-8, but LED lights on its face give the robot more personality than the Star …
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Now playing: Watch this: Star Wars and Marvel heading to Disney’s new video service 1:14 Get your fill of Marvel movies on Netflix now. Starting in 2019, the only place you’ll be able to stream new Marvel or Star Wars movies will be Disney‘s own streaming service. Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed the two hit film series will be exclusive …
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How do you express your love for a game? Name your child after it, of course. A baby girl in the Shaanxi province of China has been named Wang Zhe Rong Yao, or Honour of Kings, after the much-loved Chinese video game, reported local publication The Paper. The game has garnered so much popularity in China that its developers, Tencent, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Toshiba’s Star Wars TV is the screen you’ve been looking… 1:09 Here’s a test of your Star Wars loyalty. Do you love Star Wars so much that you’d watch Star Wars even when you’re watching something other than Star Wars? That’s more or less what Toshiba’s new TVs, designed in collaboration with Lucasfilm, let you do. …
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It used to take months for movies to make their way from the cinema to your home. Now, that wait could be as little as one week. Foxtel and Dendy on Thursday announced a partnership for the “near simultaneous” release of feature films. You’ll be able to see a raft of “niche feature and documentary films” in any Dendy (or …
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